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[Android Apps and Games] Harsha Raj:
Love this app. But my only concern is that this app used lot of bandwidth. I have set the refresh interval to 24 hours, even then the bandwidth usage is too high. I know that wifi networks will have unlimited bandwidth. But here my ISP provides good speed only for limited bandwidth. The app used 1GB of bandwidth in 15 days. Is there any way to allow users to customise how much images are to be downloaded per day?

No matter, this is the best app that changes the wallpaper with good content.

Edit: updated to v1.70 and observed some changes regarding image download strategy. Hope this will reduce the impact. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] pete3000:
i second this. I would even pay for that enhancement (in the Pro version)
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
Sometimes this app goes crazy :(

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[Android Apps and Games] Fuyu Akusai:
Doesn't work with Team Asylum Omni 4.4.2

Hello Chainfire,

I have the strangest phenomenon. 500 Firepaper works very well with stock Cyanogenmod 11 (nightly from 18032014) and even with Stock OmniRom (nightly from 18032014) on my GNote N7000, but somehow I do not get it working with Team Asylum Omni 4.4.2 . Even clearing cache/dalvik + several reboots - nothing seems to work. I've always installed the gapps package from cyanogenmod (seems to be the aquivalent to the micro modular package mentioned here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942 )

The issue itself is, that when I click on "Open wallpaper configuration" in 500 Firepaper nothing happens. In the initial step-by-step configuration it displays "Tap '500 Firepaper', followed by 'set wallpaper'." but the app itself is not left. In the options for the wallpaper itself I can only choose "Asylum Wallpapers" and "Gallery".

Any idea what I am missing? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] cyanide911:
Is anyone else having problems with this when using the default Nexus 5 launcher (GEL)? Scrolling through the homescreens loses the smoothness, and there's visible drop in frame rate. As soon as I change the wallpaper to something other than 500 firepaper, it fixes itself.
[Android Apps and Games] justaskin:
No Images Available!

Thanks for the app. I noticed this question earlier in the thread but it wasn't answered. The image often fails to load on my S3 because it says wifi isn't available or check battery. Both the battery and wifi are functioning. Is there a fix for this?
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
Clear data and cache and then re select the live wallpaper from wallpaper chooser. This will fix it.

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[Android Apps and Games] justaskin:
Yes, that seems to work. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
I am still looking for people who can reliably reproduce the black screen issue, so we can fix it. Anyone?
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
You mean the image doesn't load issue?

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[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Yes - I am completely unable to reproduce this, I literally never see the black screen, so I need someone who has this problem constantly - preferably multiple times a day, to figure out what the conditions are for this failure.
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
Well I have only faced this issue after clearing app data. If you clear app data, it will say no connection, battery must be half full...that error. If you leave it there, it wont get resolved. The only way to resolve is to select the live wallpaper again.

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[Android Apps and Games] iamosam:
The application downloads picture only if the battery is above 50% level? Is it possible to change the battery setting?

Also in my 5" 1080P screen, I see black bar at the top and bottom.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
v2.00 released

500 Firepaper has been updated to v2.00 !

Full changelog can be found on the first page, and the release notes can be found here:

v2.00 RELEASE NOTES
[Android Apps and Games] wdkingery:
What does hardware acceleration do anyway? How is beneficial? Seems to work just fine on my N900A, but I don't see a difference..?
[Android Apps and Games] Harsha Raj:
Did you check the release notes? All changes have been explained in detail.
[Android Apps and Games] midnightflash:
It's a lot more fluent with hardware acceleration! Thanks for that! Just when I go to 500 Firepaper over the Recent Apps it always goes to the initial screen instead of the History Browser where it was. That's a pity.

But all in all a great app!

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[Android Apps and Games] housry23:
Love, love, love it. Thanks! IMO this is better than Muzei. Muzei gets recognition because of the developer but I'm a huge fan of this. OK I know chainfire is a great developer, but Roman gets more love for some reason.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
It did return to the History Browser in my dev version but I disabled that for performance reasons, still looking for a work-around on that.

Thanks, it is really good to hear this once in a while.

Roman is Google'r with a lot of following, especially by other devs (who learn design tricks from his posts and videos), who spread the word to their own followers.

The thing is, most of the acclaim for Muzei is for it's very shiny configuration interface - people fawn over it. How often are you going to be in that configuration interface? If it's setup well - never. I'm also pretty sure Roman took a bunch of things from 500 Firepaper as base idea ...

I've spotted dozens of bugs in Muzei (it doesn't even work at all on some high-res large screens, good job), all in all it really doesn't work that well, IMHO. The API has a number of quirks which make it really hard for a source like 500px to behave well scheduling wise or costly bandwidth wise. Yes, there is a sample plugin for it (oh surprise!) and some have built out on it - one of the things with that is that neither respect 500px's terms and conditions (or didn't last I checked) ... and the images are lower resolution than the ones 500 Firepaper fetches as well.

All in all, I'm not a big fan of Roman. As a Google'r he's responsible for design - as with his clock widget, he's releasing an app for free that completely disrupts the indie market, and the only reason he can do that is precisely because he's a Google'r. He's personally killed this entire segment of the LWP market. He gets applauded for free and open source and shiny and whatever (which helps spread the word) - well if you work at Google and get paid up to $200k for it, then it's easy to do just that.

Heck, if 500px themselves didn't see something in 500 Firepaper, I would have dropped the project altogether, as there is pretty much no way - thanks to Roman - that I'll ever get back even minimum wage on the development of it otherwise. And no, it's not all about the money, but I do have bills to pay, and I have to choose what I spend my time on, and yes revenue is a factor in that.

Roman, just one more reason as a dev to not be fond of Google (as if we were lacking reasons). This is not the first time something like this has happened either.

Mind you, most of this *****ing is not because I dislike competition - I consider this to be unfair competition. Had it been another indie dev with a rev stream somewhere (or 500px themselves), then it would have been fair game. I'd still not be jumping for joy about it, but it makes the entire situation completely different.

Sure, some would come with the argument that you need to innovate and if you make your product *that* much better than something shiny and free and OSS, you can still sell it, etc. The target market unfortunately is not really large enough for that at this time. And it's really, really hard to compete with free apps that don't care about legality either.
[Android Apps and Games] ttabbal:
I actually had no idea there was any similar app. :)

This is one of the first things I do when setting up a new ROM. Thanks for the great app. And for the reminder to do the upgrade. I don't actually need the extras, but I do like to support other devs I have respect for. I doubt my $4 is going to help the bottom line much, but it's a small price to pay to support something I use so much.
[Android Apps and Games] housry23:
I didn't mean to push any buttons! Great post! I've been following your work for a long time. This post made me buy the Pro version. I always buy the pro version if it's an app I use regularly and thought I had already bought the Pro version of this. Well, I hadn't for some reason, but did just now. Keep up the good work Chainfire.
[Android Apps and Games] Jermaine98:
can't find set wallpaper button.

Sorry to sound like a noob but, upon opening the app i was greeted with a tutorial which told me to press 500 wallpaper and then set wallpaper however, i cannot seem to find any of these which means i am not yet able to get the wallpapers. someone, please help, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Just updated to v2.05, fixing a number of bugs with v2.00 :)

Play should update in a few hours.
[Android Apps and Games] alitaheri73:
Hi [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

wallpapers are not fit of my screen look screen shot attached. any way to make them fit of screen?
[Android Apps and Games] Millenium3:
Hmm I'm on GS4 TouchWiz in 4.4.2 KitKat and in order to see next wallpaper, I gotta tap with three fingers twice...

But overall, very good app. Have been using it for a while now.

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[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Most wallpapers simply aren't the same size as your screen, so either the app zooms them in a little, or you get black bars. Most people prefer the zoom option, which is what the app does.

Well, that is certainly odd!
[Android Apps and Games] Millenium3:
More weird is that next time I only gotta tap (with three fingers) only once... But eventually, I gotta tap twice again.

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[Android Apps and Games] An Droid:
I noticed the same since the new version(s) (2.05/2.06 for certain) on my S4 - however, it works like the notes state for HTC devices - try the 3 finger tap by placing each finger one at a time quickly.
[Android Apps and Games] bmorelli25:
Wow, nice work!
[Android Apps and Games] caiobemloke:
Battery heavy drain

Battery drain bug in the latest version, 2.06. Total battery time: 6h. HW acceleration disabled, but have tried it first and then restarted app as suggested by the app itself. Maybe it's related to reloading the cache, but 4 of 6 hours of active time is too much. All the time was on wifi. Running on Moto G Dual, XT1033, locked bootloader and stock 4.4.2.

Good luck, and great app by the way, ChainFire :)
[Android Apps and Games] sohebq:
^^

Its quite an old bug now, nothing to do with new version, only happens randomly though so it will disappear soon.

Sent from Note 3 (The beauty & beast)
[Android Apps and Games] dtriguero:
Been having this happen since last update sometimes app opens and can read everything fine then other times can't read squat see screen cap not sure if its a bug in app or my phone but never did this till latest update

Device info:

Model-Tmobile sgh-m919(carrier unlocked big thanks to you and your region lockaway app,and good help from other fourm members)

Rom- insane kit kat v8

Kernel- ktoonz tw/4.4

Carrier- AT&T

Bootloader-MK2(unfortunately)

baseband-MDL

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[Android Apps and Games] dtriguero:
tapatalk app wouldn't let me add to last post for some reason anyway here it is

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[Android Apps and Games] Ruka82:
I'm trying but have some problem.

I'm using is with Muzei and set the refresh every our but the photo doesn't change.

If i open firepaper and click the button to go to the next photo, sometimes work, sometimes nothing appear and remain the same photo.

Can I have some strange apk in the phone that block the refrsh? Or i have to do somenthing other?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Disable hardware acceleration
[Android Apps and Games] Phantom_11:
Hi dude, I seem to have the same issue as you. I'm on Nexus 5, and tried to uninstall/reinstall both 500 Firepaper and Muzei. It's still not working. [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION], could you plz have a look. Thx
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Issue confirmed. I'll look at it. Though really why you would use Muzei over Firepaper's native renderer and lose half the features is still beyond me.
[Android Apps and Games] mistermojorizin:
i'm having issue with Muzei also. It will change at a set time (ex: every 30 mins), but when i open muzei and try to manually go to the next wallpaper, it will not change.

also, to answer your question, I prefer firepaper's features, but in firepaper when i scroll to the next homescreen, the wallpaper only scrolls a little bit, even though the "parallex" effect is enabled. so, you often can't even see the whole picture. with muzei, wallpaper scrolls normally, similar to the stock behavior, and you can see the whole picture if you scroll through it.
[Android Apps and Games] dtriguero:
Thanks for the speedy reply. I figured out what was causing it to do that. Phone was running low on ram the times I would open and it would do that had to much running at one time. I don't open it very often unless need to change something so I just use cleanmaster to release some ram before I do and haven't had the problem again and I am still able to leave the hardware acceleration checked. So all is good now love your apps and thanks again for your speedy reply keep up the great work

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[Android Apps and Games] intronauta:
Because I get poor performance using 500 firepaper with Google Now Launcher in my Nexus7 (2013) stock. It's much better with HW accel. enabled but crash randomly, and Muzei offers less zoom effect ergo "better/more pronounced" parallax effect.

I suggest (if possible) an option where we can choose zoom level to improve the parallax effect.

My2cents of course, and kudos for the app. it's really great.

*sorry for my english
[Android Apps and Games] Ruka82:
I use Muzei for the double click to give and remove focuse on the photo, is there the same on 500 Firepaper and i don't see it?
[Android Apps and Games] uplift777:
Not working

I can't even get this app to start working. Any ideas why? I used it before and it automatically started working...
[Android Apps and Games] herczyn:
hey, great app, many thanks, even better with pinning :)

one feature request if you'll have time: add 3d parallax as an option.

beautiful photos with 3d parallax would be so, so great...

thanks in advance :)
[Android Apps and Games] xdp:
Hi Chainfire,

Thank you for this wonderful app...I always got so sick of picking new wallpapers in Zedge all the time, this is exactly what I wanted, let me pick the categories, see something new and fresh everyday. Really great. I wanted the ability to keep some images around longer so I upgraded to Pro as soon as I saw the prompt about the pinning feature. Thanks for including this.

I noticed that after upgrading, I could not pin pictures that were downloaded before I upgraded. This was confusing at first and I thought the feature was broken. You might want to explain this in a pop-up after the user purchases the upgrade.
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
If anything, this is a bug. There's an update incoming, let me know if this behavior persists - because this should just work.
[Android Apps and Games] Millenium3:
Thanks for the update! Now my S4 skips wallpaper properly...! no more double three finger tap.

Thanks and keep up with the awesome work!

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[Android Apps and Games] //.dax:
After latest update, app gives me FC: java.langVerify.error

Anyone?

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[Android Apps and Games] ttabbal:
Working here. Sounds like a bad download, but the Play Store usually prevents them from installing if that happens. :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] //.dax:
I reinstalled the app, still the same error..

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[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
DexGuard issue - a new version has already been uploaded to the Play Store. Seems only 4.0 and 4.1 devices are affected - sorry, I don't often test on those Android versions any more.
[Android Apps and Games] intronauta:
Ok, the new parallax effect works very well, much better than before, and with HW accel. enabled doesn't crash when rotate the screen in my Nexus7 2013 stock anymore and get smooth transitions in my GPE launcher. Bye bye Muzei.

Thanks for the improvements and keep up the good work
[Android Apps and Games] mistermojorizin:
just wanted to say thank you, chainfire for being responsive to our comments and fixing the parallax. uninstalled Muzei as well. Now trying to decide if I should turn HW acceleration on or not. It seems the disadvantage is ram usage, and I'm not sure what the advatages are since it runs perfectly smoothly on my droid maxx as it is...
[Android Apps and Games] //.dax:
Man, you deserve a medal :D it's working now.. BTW, you are one of the most user-friendly developer I ever seen :D

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[Android Apps and Games] XTS-Troll:
One of the first apps which makes me buy the pro version even though the pro features are not needed (at least for me) as it gives almost all the features on standard just to support this awesome developer
[Android Apps and Games] Sebsey:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] at my friends device wallpaper gets new every 5 Min, but its set 24h.

His settings are same like on my device.. At my phone it works great (every 12h).

His phone: Motorola Moto G. Stock Android. No custom rom. No root. Just like out of the Box!
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
A couple of users have reported this, not sure what the issue is. I would suggest clearing the 500 Firepaper's data, then reconfiguring, see if that fixes the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Aly007:
Cold you, or do you plan on adding an widget for the app ? It would be nice to have them on my Aviate Launcher
[Android Apps and Games] Harsha Raj:
Happens with my mom's moto g too. I was said that the wallpaper changes all of a sudden when plugging out the charger or when going to home screen after watching lot of videos. Maybe memory issues?
[Android Apps and Games] Chainfire:
Interestingly, I think that everybody who has reported this issue has been on a Moto ...
[Android Apps and Games] dtriguero:
I second that a big shiny one and maybe a few cases of beer and as far as user friendly 100% correct. He really takes the end-users thoughts into consideration. He is one of the best and most helpful devs I know of.

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[Android Apps and Games] solarspeed:
Random wallpaper changes after the last update on Nexus 5. Timeout is set to 12 hrs, wallpaper change pattern is completely unpredictable, ranging from 5 mins to 1 hr, sometimes it is triggered when hitting going to home screen from any app. Sometimes the change is triggered by waking the phone up. WTF is happening?

Tried clearing the cache, killing the app and deleting data, nothing helps. Running stock 4.4.2, rooted with GravityBox, GNow launcher.
[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
Hello. I just installed the app and the concept is fantastic. I'd so far been using Auto Wallpaper for the same purpose, but its source is reddit, which is a bit of a hit or miss proposition.

I am having one major issue with 500 Firepaper though. I've set it to change the wallpaper every twelve hours, but it displays a black screen with the "no images available" error every time I disconnect from Wi-Fi. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I'm using a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact running Android 4.4.2 (unrooted).
[Android Apps and Games] barabangel:
For me too... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] dtriguero:
Try unchecking update over wifi only also if you don't have pro version images I believe only are cached for 24hrs(someone correct me if wrong) and since you have set for 12hr interval I believe it only downloads new images when needs to show a new image so you probably don't have anything cached for it to show when your off wifi connection

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---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:55 PM ----------

Maybe an issue related to the Google launcher my S4 just started acting up with the wallpaper since I put the Google launcher on it never did before and daydream still works fine changes just how it's supposed to didn't Google just update now an search maybe something isn't meshing right with the two meaning this app and Google's stuff just a thought

Edit- seems to only act up when connected to a slow wifi connection and have update over wifi only checked when not checked and on mobile data seems to work fine

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[Android Apps and Games] aryayush:
I don’t want to uncheck that option because I’m on a very limited data connection.

I don’t understand. Once it has downloaded the first image, if it has to download the next one 12 hours later, it should have the first one in its cache, shouldn’t it? And, in any case, I found that it basically always displayed that black screen on my phone, without any rhyme or reason.

I downloaded it and it was showing the black screen. I changed the wallpaper changing frequency to 12 hours and it still showing that screen. Then I changed the frequency to every time the wallpaper is shown and it didn’t change even then. After I’d turned the screen on and off a few times, it showed me a wallpaper. Then I changed the frequency back to 12 hours and it again went back to that screen. Then I changed the frequency back to the screen setting and it displayed a wallpaper after a few tries.

Finally, I changed it back to 12 hours and the wallpaper remained displayed. I thought the problem was sorted. When I later left my office, it went back to the black screen. I thought the issue was because of the lack of a Wi-Fi connection, so I posted the comment here, but it would not show me the wallpaper later either, when I was on a Wi-Fi connection. At that point, I got frustrated and uninstalled it. Throughout it all, I always had over 50% battery life and was on a pretty fast Wi-Fi network, and it all happened in a span of about two hours.

On the same phone, Auto Wallpaper (for reddit) has no trouble at all cycling through wallpapers. I hardly ever see a blank screen with it (though occasionally I do).

Now, can someone help me please? I’d really like to have 500px as the source of my wallpapers.
[Android Apps and Games] cpaixao:
idea

Hello [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] , congratulations for your awesome app. I would like to suggest you to add a new feature to this app: show photograph info by double tap or any other gesture at homescreen, so only the picture and that info would be visible . App will start immersive mode, apps and widgets will disappear from the screen. When you tap on it once again everything rolls back to default.

Thank you very much.
[Android Apps and Games] XTS-Troll:
Works like a charm, need nothing more...just work on optimizing your app so it has less cpu and memory (especially memory). That should be the first priority...
[Android Apps and Games] XTS-Troll:
Add support for go launcher, wallpapers work and refresh but parallax doesn't work, and a static image for all my home screens doesn't look good... Please add it as fast as possible because parallax is a must
[Android Apps and Games] subhani:
Latest updates since v2 has increased the wallpaper scroll 'width'. There was LESS panning in the earlier versions and that was a lot more subtle yet very effective.

Now a lot of people are telling me my display is causing them iPhone style motion sickness. I've had to turn parallax off. But I would love it to revert to old method of panning.